Laurel Hill Golf Club Instruction

8701 Laurel Crest Drive • Lorton, VA 22079 • 703-493-8849

Our PGA Class A Pro and his staff are ready to work with you to
improve your game. We specialize in individualized instruction to best
suit your needs, no matter your experience or skill level. Our mission
at Laurel Hill Golf Academy, above all else, is to make golf fun.

Fundamentals Golf
Clinic
The Laurel Hill Golf Club's Fundamental Golf School is designed to
introduce people to the fundamentals of playing golf. This includes
building the proper swing and fundamentals, understanding short game
techniques, an overview of equipment, as well as a basic understanding
of the rules and etiquette of golf on and off the course.

Intermediate Golf
Clinic
The Laurel Hill Golf Club's Intermediate Golf School is designed to
take one's game to the next level while still implementing the proper
fundamentals of golf. This includes building the proper swing and
fundamentals, understanding short game techniques, an overview of
equipment, as well as a basic understanding of the rules and etiquette
of golf on and off the course.

Women’s Only Golf
Clinic
The Laurel Hill Golf Club's Women's Only Golf Clinic is designed to
introduce women to the fundamentals of playing golf. This includes
building the proper swing and fundamentals, understanding short game
techniques, an overview of equipment, as well as a basic understanding
of the rules and etiquette of golf on and off the course.

To schedule a
lesson call the golf shop at 703-493-8849
and ask to speak with our PGA professional, Gene Orrico.

Don't forget to visit our practice facilities
after your lesson where our range, short game area, and putting green
are ideally suited to help you improve all aspects of your game.

For Gene Orrico, the introduction
to golf came in his front yard, slamming fallen apples into the
street with his dad’s clubs borrowed from the bag parked in the
family’s garage. After Gene failed to win a spot on the baseball team
his freshman year, he got a few lessons from his father and went on
to be the first player at his high school to earn a varsity letter in
golf four years in a row. But he abandoned the game at Old Dominion
University, directing his attention to a bachelor’s degree in
education and sequential career paths in the construction industry,
restaurant management and sporting goods sales.

In the mid-1990s, he returned to the golf course and reclaimed the
form, power and low handicap of earlier years. Initially, it was for
fun but soon it turned into a career quest. To master the business of
golf, Gene landed a job at Reston National, worked on the design,
construction and operation of the Golden Bear Golf Center in Maryland
and the Mid-Atlantic Golf Center in Northern Virginia, and in 2000,
earned his Class A Professional certification from the PGA. He’s been
Director of Golf at Laurel Hill since the course opened five years
ago, teaching individual lessons, setting up workshops, tournaments
and clinics, managing the pro shop and otherwise overseeing golf
operations.

Favorite club in the bag? 2 17-degree hybrid club – 99.9
percent of the time, if I swing with it, I hit the ball!

Easiest part of the game to master? Putting. When I’m
teaching novices who’ve never played, I ask if they ever played
putt-putt, and we start with that.

The most common mistake by beginners? Too many people don’t
understand that you need to practice in order to get better. And they
don’t realize that with the golf swing, you don’t begin at the top –
you begin at the bottom and move from the putt to the swing.

The golfer you most admire? Besides my father, it would be
Arnold Palmer. He went from small town roots to become the ambassador
for golf, and he’s a smart business man.

The best thing about Laurel Hill? Playability, for every
single golfer out there as long as they choose the right tees. Laurel
Hill has five to six sets of tees per hole; it appeals to everyone.